Upper house to hold inquiry into Barilaro’s plum New York appointment | AlexSmithSMH
The NSW upper house will hold an inquiry into a plum New York posting handed to former deputy premier John Barilaro, amid outrage from Liberal MPs at Premier Dominic Perrottet’s captain’s pick.
“It doesn’t come as any surprise to me that the independent process that occurred that he was by far the most outstanding candidate and was recommended by that panel to the government,” Perrottet said on Saturday. , and Barilaro did not follow through with his threats to take his party to the crossbench, but tensions remained between the Liberals and Nationals.Barilaro resigned from parliament in December, telling reporters that public life had “taken a toll”.Earlier this month, Barilaro was awarded $715,000 in his high-profile defamation case against Google after a judge found he was subjected to a “relentless and vicious campaign” of cyberbullying that led him to resign from politics prematurely.
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